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Recapitulation of Data on Ukrainian Fossil Insectivore Mammals (Eulipotyphla, Insectivora, Mammalia) Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 58(2): 137-171, Kraków, 31 December, 2015 Ó Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Pol. Acad. Sci., Kraków doi:10.3409/azc.58_2.137 RecapitulationofdataonUkrainianfossilinsectivoremammals (Eulipotyphla,Insectivora,Mammalia) BarbaraRZEBIK-KOWALSKA andLeonid I.REKOVETS Received:04September2015.Accepted:08December2015.Availableonline:23December2015. RZEBIK-KOWALSKA B., REKOVETS L.I. 2015. Recapitulation of data on Ukrainian fossil insectivore mammals (Eulipotyphla, Insectivora, Mammalia). Acta zool. cracov., 58(2): 137-171. Abstract. The paper recapitulates data on the fossil insectivore mammals of Ukraine. They include families: Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Dimylidae, Heterosoricidae and Soricidae. In Ukraine the oldest insectivore remains come from the locality of Gritsev and are dated to the early Late Miocene (MN9). The insectivore taxa cited from this country are presented in twelve Tables of three types. One of them lists taxa published with descriptions, meas- urements, localities and geological ages, the second mentions taxa without descriptions or measurements and the third without descriptions, measurements or exact localities. Short remarksonquestionableformsaregiven. Key words: Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Dimylidae, Heterosoricidae, Soricidae, Late Miocene-Holocene,Ukraine. * Barbara RZEBIK-KOWALSKA, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish AcademyofSciences,S³awkowska17,31-016Kraków,Poland. [email protected] Leonid I. REKOVETS, University of Environmental and Life Sciences of Wroc³aw, Che³moñskiego 38 C, 51-630 Wroc³aw, Poland; National Museum of Natural History, B.Khmelnitski15,01030Kiev,Ukraine. [email protected] I.INTRODUCTION Many papers were published on fossil mammals of Ukraine but only a dozen or so con- tain description of insectivore mammals with measurements, systematic positions as well as localities in which they were found and their geological ages. Those are the papers of PIDOPLICHKO 1955, 1956, TATARINOV 1958, TOPACHEVSKY 1959, 1962a, 1965 and 1966, SVISTUN 1968, MEZHZHERIN and SVISTUN 1968, GUREEV 1971, 1979, MEZHZHERIN 1972, TOPACHEVSKY and PASHKOV 1983, 1990, PASHKOV and TOPACHEVSKY 1990, RZEBIK-KOWALSKA and TOPACHEVSKY 1997, AGADZHANYAN 2009, RZEBIK-KOWAL- SKA and NESIN 2010 and RZEBIK-KOWALSKA and REKOVETS in press. Other papers con- cerning Ukrainian localities, their stratigraphy and fauna cite only the lists of insectivore taxa. The lists are usually copied from other publications of the same type, however with- out any verification. On the other hand it is known that some of these taxa were wrongly identifiedorimprobableinUkrainianterritory. B.RZEBIK-KOWALSKA, L.I.REKOVETS 138 As it can be seen in the Tables (I, IV, VIII, X) so far 40 named species are cited but only 25 (ten moles and 15 shrews) of 15 genera (four moles and eleven shrews) are well docu- mented. As in neighbouring and territorially smaller Poland the number of well docu- mented fossil insectivore mammals (Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Dimylidae, Heterosoricidae and Soricidae) equals 77 (RZEBIK-KOWALSKA 2009) the Ukrainian list seems to be in- complete. The present paper lists in Tables (I-XII) all fossil insectivore mammals described or cited at any time in this country. It also shows which of them are well documented and reallypresentonthisarea.Shortremarksonthequestionableformsarealsogiven. Abbreviations: LM = Late Miocene, P = Pliocene, EP = Early Pliocene, LP = Late Pliocene, Pl = Pleistocene, EPl = Early Pleistocene, MPl = Middle Pleistocene, LPl = Late Pleistocene, H=HoloceneandEH=EarlyHolocene. Surnames and initials of three authors are spelled in tables and references following original publications in Russian or Ukrainian, respectively: CHEPALYGA (in Russian pa- pers), CHEPELIGA (in Ukrainian); V. A. MEZHZHERIN (in Russian), V. O. MEZHZHERIN (in Ukrainian); V. A. TOPACHEVSKY (in Russian) and V. O. TOPACHEVSKY (in Ukrainian). II.FOSSILINSECTIVOREMAMMALSOFUKRAINE Class: Mammalia LINNAEUS,1758 Superorder: Insectivora sensuNOVACEK,1986 Order: Eulipotyphla WADDELL,OKADA andHASEGAWA,1999 II.1.Family Erinaceidae FISCHER,1814 (TablesI-III) Comments. In the Ukraine the fossil Erinaceidae are represented by two subfamilies – thespinelessgymnures–Galericinaeandspinyhedgehogs–Erinaceinae. The presence of the fossil hedgehog Lanthanotherium FILHOL, 1888 is not confirmed by morphological studies. Because it is found in many European countries situated in the vicinity of Ukraine, e.g. in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, its presence in Ukraine is also very probable. Its occurrence in Europe was documented since the Middle to the middle Late Miocene (MN3/MN4 to MN11) (RZEBIK-KOWALSKA 2009) and in Asia (China) fromMN4andMN11-MN12(QIU andSTORCH 2005). The second fossil form, Amphechinus AYMARD, 1850 from Gritsev also lacks a mor- phological description. As the remains of this genus were collected in western and south- ern Europe in localities dated from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene (MN9), its presence in Ukraine is possible. It is also known from North America, Africa and Asia (ZIEGLER 2005). The name of the tribe, Amphechini GUREEV, 1979, cited by TOPACHEVSKY etal.(1997)isusedveryrarelyintheEuropeanliterature. RecapitulationofUkrainianfossilinsectivores 139 The recent Hemiechinus auritus (GMELIN, 1770) currently lives in the steppe zone of eastern Ukraine and its remains among the Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossils of this countryareexpected. Instead, the presence of Erinaceus europaeus LINNAEUS, 1758 cited by TOPACHEVSKY (1957a, 1961b) in the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Ukrainian territory is unlikely. This European hedgehog is distributed in western Europe and the eastern boundary of its range reaches only the Odra river. On the other hand in the Pleistocene several other species of the genus Erinaceus occurred in Europe. Moreover, the white-breasted hedgehog, E. rou- manicus BARRET-HAMMILTON, 1900 currently inhabits eastern Europe and the Ponto- Mediterranean region (SOMMER 2007). The remains mentioned by TOPACHEVSKY (1957a,1961b)probablybelongtothelatterspecies. Erinaceidae gen. et sp. indet. from Popovo 3 and Verkhnya Krynitsa 2 are now de- scribed as Schizogalerix sp. Hedgehog remains were not found in the material from Popovo2. TableI Fossil Erinaceidae of Ukraine (published with descriptions, measurements, localities and geologicalages) Family Subfamilies Localities Age Publications Genera Species Erinaceidae Galericinae Schizogalerix cf. sarmaticum Mikhailovka1 LM (Late Vallesian, MN10) RZEBIK-KOWALSKA and UNGU ESIN (L ,1981) Frunzovka2 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) N 2010 Popovo3 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) RZEBIK-KOWALSKA and Schizogalerix sp. LM (Early/Middle Turolian, EKOVETS VerkhnyaKrynitsa2 R inpress MN11/MN12) Erinaceinae RZEBIK-KOWALSKA and cf. Postpalerinaceus sp. Mikhailovka2 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) NESIN 2010 Erinaceus sp. Nogaisk EPl(EarlyBiharian,Q1) V.A.TOPACHEVSKY 1965 B.RZEBIK-KOWALSKA, L.I.REKOVETS 140 TableII FossilErinaceidaeofUkraine(mentionedwithoutdescriptionsormeasurements) Family Subfamilies Tribes Localities Age Publications Genera Species Erinaceidae Galericinae V.A.TOPACHEVSKY,NESIN andI.V.TOPACHEVSKY 1997; RZEBIK-KOWALSKA andV.O. Lanthanotherium sp. Gritsev LM (Early Vallesian, MN9) TOPACHEVSKY 1997;NESIN andNADACHOWSKI 2001; NESIN 2013 Schizogalerix cf. Mikhailovka1 LM (Late Vallesian, MN10) NESIN 2013 sarmaticum Frunzovka2 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) V.A.TOPACHEVSKY,NESIN andI.V.TOPACHEVSKY 1997; LM(EarlyVallesian, Gritsev RZEBIK-KOWALSKA andV.O. MN9) TOPACHEVSKY 1997;NESIN Schizogalerix sp. andNADACHOWSKI 2001 Novoelizavetovka3 LM (Middle Turolian, MN12) NESIN 2013 Cherevychnoe3 LM (Middle Turolian, MN12) NESIN 2013 V.A.TOPACHEVSKY,NESIN Galericinaegen. andI.V.TOPACHEVSKY 1997; Gritsev LM (Early Vallesian, MN9) etsp.indet NESIN andNADACHOWSKI 2001 Erinaceinae V.A.TOPACHEVSKY,NESIN ?Amphechini Gritsev LM (Early Vallesian, MN9) andI.V.TOPACHEVSKY 1997 RZEBIK-KOWALSKA andV.O. Gritsev LM (Early Vallesian, MN9) TOPACHEVSKY 1997;NESIN Amphechinus sp. 2013 Cherevychnoe3 LM (Middle Turolian, MN12) NESIN 2013 cf. Hemiechinus sp. Gorishnya Vygnanka LP TATARINOV 1965b cf. Postpalerinaceus sp. Mikhailovka2 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) NESIN 2013 RecapitulationUkrainianfossilinsectivores 141 TableII(continuation) Family Subfamilies Tribes Localities Age Publications Genera Species Kotlovina1 EP (Late Ruscinian, MN15) Odessa(catacombs) EP (Late Ruscinian, MN15) EPl(previouslyLate ESIN Kotlovina2 N 2013 Villanyan,MN17) EPl(previouslyLate Kotlovina3 Villanyan,MN17) Nogaisk EPl(EarlyBiharian,Q1) V.O.TOPACHEVSKY 1957b Erinaceus sp. REKOVETS,CHEPALYGA, Bolshevik2(l.III) EPl(LateBiharian,Q2) NESIN andSVETLITSKAYA 1990; REKOVETS 1990 Tarkhankut EPl(EarlyBiharian,Q1) Nogaisk EPl(EarlyBiharian,Q1) REKOVETS and Cherevychnoe1 EPl(EarlyBiharian,Q1) NADACHOWSKI 1995 Bolshevik2(l.III) EPl(LateBiharian,Q2) Tikhonovka1 EPl(LateBiharian,Q2) Novoelizavetovka2 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) Popovo3 LM (Early Turolian, MN11) NESIN 2013 Erinaceidaegen. LM(Early/Middle Verkhnya Krynitsa 2 etsp.indet. Turolian,MN11/MN12) REKOVETS andPASHKOV 2009 LP(EarlyVillanyan,endof Popovo2 MN16) B.RZEBIK-KOWALSKA, L.I.REKOVETS 142 TableIII Fossil Erinaceidae of Ukraine (mentioned without descriptions, measurements or exact localities) Family Subfamily Localities Age Publications Genera Species Erinaceidae Erinaceinae alluvia(lowercourseof LPlandH V.O.TOPACHEVSKY 1957a Dnieper) alluvia(middlecourseof Erinaceuseuropaeus Dnieper, MPlandLPl V.O.TOPACHEVSKY 1961b LINNAEUS,1758 Cherkasy-MishurinRig
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